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{{Short description|Houseboat in California, United States}}
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The '''''Vallejo''''' is a [[houseboat]] in [[Sausalito, California]], United States. It was originally a
==History==
The [[Oregon & California Railroad]] ''Ferry No. 2'' initially served Portland, providing connectivity between the [[East Portland, Oregon|East Portland]] terminus of the O&C Railroad line and [[Downtown Portland]].<ref name=laststop>
{{cite news
|title = [[:File:Last
|first = Lawrence
|last = Barber
|newspaper = [[The Oregonian]] (Northwest Roto Sunday magazine)▼
▲ |date = August 22, 1954
▲ |newspaper = [[The Oregonian]]
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{{cite book
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{{cite book
|title=Reports of cases decided in the Supreme Court of the State of Oregon
|volume=8
|author=
|author-link=Oregon Supreme Court
|publisher=West Publishing Co.
|year=1880
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Differing accounts have Ferry No. 2 built on the East Coast and coming to Portland around [[Cape Horn]], or else being built in Portland.<ref name=sutter>{{cite web |publisher=Scope Pub. Co. |location=Sausalito, Calif |first=Annie |last=Sutter |url=http://www.vallejo.to/articles/sutter_03.htm |title=The Old Ferryboats of Sausalito |date=1987}}</ref>
With the construction of the [[Steel Bridge]] in 1888, the ferry was no longer needed; after several idle years, it was transported to the [[San Francisco Bay]], renamed ''Vallejo'' (no later than 1904<ref>{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SMhBAQAAMAAJ&
===Restoration===
Artist [[Jean Varda]] noticed the boat while its demolition was pending. He, surrealist [[Gordon Onslow Ford]], and architect [[Forest Wright]] purchased it; Wright soon sold his third to Ford. They made extensive, improvised alterations, using scraps in the area, and turned the boat into an art studio and [[houseboat]]. Ford described it as "a place where artists blossomed, flowered", adding that "Varda set the tone" with his interest in entertaining.<ref name=sutter />
Under the auspices of The Society For Comparative Philosophy (
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|archive-date=11 August 2017
|date=18 August 2011
}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Frank |first=Phil |url=http://archive.org/details/houseboatsofsaus0000fran |title=Houseboats of Sausalito |publisher=Arcadia Pub. |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-7385-5552-2 |location=Charleston, S.C. |pages=65; 88–91}}</ref>
===Later life===
''Vallejo'' deteriorated badly during the 1960s. Varda died suddenly in 1971, as did Watts in 1973.<ref name=sutter /> Talks,
Marian Saltman, who had begun living on ''Vallejo'' in 1971, rented for years and arranged for its purchase in 1981,
Now in private hands, the ''Vallejo'' was transferred across the San Francisco Bay to an [[Alameda, California|Alameda]] shipyard for repairs in 2000, and then returned to her dock in Sausalito.<ref>{{cite news |title=The Vallejo floats again! |first=Denize |last=Forant |work=Floating Times |type=Newsletter |publisher=Floating Homes Association |date=October 2000 |url=http://www.floatinghomes.org/dnload/ft200005.pdf |volume=XV |number=5 |page=3}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vallejo.to/2002/001_aug.htm |title=Photographs, August 2002 – December 2002 |website=SS Vallejo |access-date=2011-08-30}}</ref> A new [[fiberglass]] outer hull was constructed and installed. The houseboat operates as a private residence with no visitation permitted.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oursausalito.com/houseboats/ss-vallejo-ferry-boat.html |title=Jean Varda, Alan Watts & the S.S. Vallejo Ferry in Sausalito |website=oursausalito.com |access-date=15 January 2023}}</ref>
== References ==
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== External links ==
* [[wikisource:en:
[[Category:Ferries of Oregon]]
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